>>>Is there a way in .Net to convert a given SQL data type to a .Net data type?
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>>Can you give the context of your question? From a DataReader?
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>Sorry, I'm working on a data conversion tool...
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>I want to pass in a SQL data type, either as a string or an object, and get back the correspondiong C#/.Net datatype.

Good luck. Not sure you can, but will watch this thread with interest. You can probably build your own function to do this.